Today's third, and last, 'Illustrated Title' for review is this graphic novelisation of Gaiman's Graveyard Book: orchestrated by P Craig Russell and featuring the penmanship of Kevin Nowlan, P. Craig Russell, Tony Harris, Scott Hampton, Galen Showman, Jill Thompson, and Stephen B. Scott. It's all very professionally accomplished: a thoroughly realised bande dessinée. It's so well done, indeed, that it feels petty to carp. Nonetheless there was a small still voice, at the back of my head, that wondered at the point of the exercise. It's not as though Gaiman's prose (never less than plainly efficient at communicating its story) doesn't work in the original at getting the whole over to its YA readership. The rather wordy, explanation-heavy original has been scripted, here, into some text-dense panels, lots of fat speech balloons lousy with words, and a slightly sluggish pace. It's by no means bad though. By no means.
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